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Entertainment Events 

Review: Don Pasquale, Royal Opera House

November 19, 2019May 19, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Comic caution on ageing, vanity and legacy! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails a timelessly relevant revival

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Hansard, Lyttleton Theatre (National Theatre)

November 18, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com 1988. Section 28. And politics gets personal between a Tory MP and his wife! Bent’s

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Events 

Gay Fawkes Night?

October 28, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

By Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com  Blazing faggots! Over 400 years on, sparks fly as Bent’s Adrian Gillan explores King James

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Travel 

Scouse in the House: Gay Liverpool!

October 25, 2019May 16, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com                                                          Fairy across the Mersey! Bent’s Adrian Gillan enjoys culture, buzz and boys amidst “likely lads”

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Orpheus in the Underworld, English National Opera, London Coliseum

October 20, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Raucously hellish Can-can operetta rebooted for a #MeToo age! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails ENO’s fiercely

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Entertainment Events 

Review: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Trafalgar Studios

October 14, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com You can only laugh away so much pain! Bent’s Adrian Gillan is moved by a

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Entertainment 

Gay Ghosts

October 10, 2019June 7, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com              Holy ghoulies! Halloween (31 Oct) looming, Bent’s Adrian Gillan unearths famous homo haunts! It

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Travel 

Gonna Puglia: Bari & Brindisi!

October 8, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Pulling in Puglia! Bent’s Adrian Gillan adores the fine history, culture, cuisine – and men

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Entertainment Events 

Review: ‘Master Harold’… and the boys, Lyttleton Theatre (National Theatre)

October 3, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Insecurity tests dignity, hurting what it loves! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails the National Theatre’s revival

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Blood Wedding, Young Vic, London

September 30, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for Bent  Tragic cycles of brutal tribalism! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails a clever “Celtiberian” adaptation of gay

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Akram Khan’s Giselle, English National Ballet. Sadler’s Wells, London

September 25, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com   Love, betrayal, redemption! Bent’s Adrian Gillan is mesmerised by the English National Ballet’s revival of

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Events Travel 

Lake Geneva Region: Swiss Hike, Wine & Dine!

September 23, 2019May 4, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.Bent.com  Along the alluringly sloping Swiss north shore of majestic Lake Geneva, twixt Geneva itself and

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Entertainment Events 

Review: A Doll’s House, Lyric Hammersmith, London

September 16, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for Bent.com  The subjugation of gender – and race! Bent’s Adrian Gillan fetes Tanika Gupta’s enriched-yet-faithful new

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Falsettos, The Other Palace, London

September 13, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com   A man; his wife, son, gay lover and shrink; plus lesbian neighbours! Bent’s Adrian

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Torch Song, The Turbine Theatre, London

September 11, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for Bent Bent’s Adrian Gillan enjoys the blistering UK premiere of Harvey Fierstein’s newly streamlined, and still

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Entertainment Events 

Review: The Secret River, Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)

August 30, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com  Two families, one continent, as past flows into present! Bent’s Adrian Gillan is rocked by

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Entertainment Events 

Review: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, The Musical Ambassadors Theatre, London

August 27, 2019May 4, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.Bent.com Sue Townsend’s eccentrically intellectual, awkwardly vulnerable, timeless teenage icon – set to music! Bent’s Adrian

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Travel 

Coasting “the near South West” in Dorset!

August 21, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay Gay Travel

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Bored of Bournemouth, East Dorset’s gay mecca? Bent’s Adrian Gillan explores, instead, the fab coast

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Entertainment Travel 

Coming home to Shakespeare in Stratford!

August 16, 2019May 16, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Adrian Gillan makes his home-from-home at the amazing old-yet-new Hotel Indigo, in Stratford-upon-Avon – itself

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Entertainment Events 

Review: The Bridges of Madison County, Menier Chocolate Factory, London

August 15, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay gay theatre

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com  Constrained housewife and restless wanderer fall in love; must live apart! Bent’s Adrian Gillan swoons

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Bitter Wheat, Garrick Theatre, London

August 5, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Burn Hollywood burn! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails John Malkovich’s blistering turn as a casting-couch ogre

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Events Travel 

Mad about Manchester!

July 30, 2019May 20, 2022 Jay Manchester pride

by Adrian Gillan for www.Bent.com. Adrian Gillan stays at the superb Townhouse Hotel Manchester – around the corner from one

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Fiddler on the Roof, Playhouse Theatre London

July 25, 2019May 19, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com  Insecurity, traditions that bind and the need for change! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails legendary director

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Noises Off, Lyric Hammersmith, London

July 24, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com  A farce about a farce! Bent’s Adrian Gillan loves the latest revival of Michael Frayn’s

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Entertainment Events 

Review: Peter Gynt, Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)

July 23, 2019May 24, 2022 Jay

by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com  This age of Facebook fantasy and self-delusion! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails the National Theatre’s Peter

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